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Biscuit said:
No doubt, they had some nice wins over their history.

in the end, I think this has been an example of the pitfalls of rapid company growth under a leadership team not experienced enough to handle it. That ultimately falls on their board and investors for allowing that to happen.
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The lawsuit docs made me think “holy shit. The board wasn’t paying any attention at all to anything VMP was doing.” Either that or they are complete idiots.

And that was VMP’s side of the story!!
 
roffle24 said:
I read somewhere they were supposed to update the production calendar this week. Guess they are either waiting til the last minute or it's not happening. If I don't see an update on that GD box soon I'm refunding. Not sure how Blue Note is on time now, while GD is still in limbo. There's no way it's shipping in January, I just want to see how much further its delayed.

I started my collection with Tha Carter III. I'll spin that and pour out a little.
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They updated a few things on the cal I believe. Last I saw there’s some kinda production call about GD next week or some crap hah. Seeming like more and more that VMP hasn’t paid Warner and they are holding records hostage. Not buying the “Warner shuts down for most of December for the holidays” excuse.

I do think it’ll eventually come out.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I just pulled my VMP exclusive of Dan Deacan’s Spiderman Of The Rings off the self yesterday for the first time in a while and it reminded me what VMP could do when things were rolling. Great jacket with lots of sharp details the albums sounds great too. It’s such a a nice package and one they you could pick up as a swaption for under $30. They have always had random issues of varying degrees but when they do an album right they really did fill a nice hole in the industry.
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Yea—when they got things right, they had some really killer releases. I have lots of VMP records that will easily survive my record purge I’m trying to do. Introduced me to good music but I eventually just outgrew most of what they were selling.

The somewhat ironic thing is that their success early on is probably their downfall. Labels saw the success they were having and thought “why don’t we just do that ourselves?” Then awful leadership made lots of awful decisions and they got greedy.
 
MikeH said:
The lawsuit docs made me think “holy shit. The board wasn’t paying any attention at all to anything VMP was doing.” Either that or they are complete idiots.

And that was VMP’s side of the story!!
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There's a great book called "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" by Marshall Goldsmith that looks at business situations like this one. The takeaway is there are people who excel as entrepreneurs and can start/grow a business, but those same skillsets can become a liability, rather than a plus, if those individuals don't adjust at the right time. For example, hire and delegate responsibilities. The idea is that a person may have the skills to get you to the edge of the Rubicon, but you may need a more experienced hand or hands to get you across the Rubicon.
This is also why an experienced board can make a huge difference. An experienced board knows when to advocate for leadership changes and who to bring in.
 
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Matt basically just admitted that the new process will result in you getting back catalog and that’s why they are pushing crate to older folks.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I mean you can be, you just can’t engage with venture capitalists or get listed on the stock market.
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Agreed. Positives of growth are: job creation (folks can pay rent, buy food); the company you love can stay alive and pay its' bills without needing money from outside parties; business can buy things needed to improve service and products (software, etc).
Cons are greed; loss of focus on the customer and product; biz gets swole and get purchased by people who don't care; you take money from others who expect things in return incongruent with your original identity.
There is definately a middle ground there that if reached, can be positive.
 
Selaws said:
For the past few months I have been listening to and sharing each record from VMP's Classics series on my Instagram each Saturday. I actually joined before they even had subs though so I would probably listen to one of the earlier releases that I wouldn't have really heard otherwise, like Wells Fargo, Beach House, Daniel Norgren, Townes Van Zandt, Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, Fiona Apple, etc.

Haters gonna hate but VMP really opened my eyes to a ton of music, you guys via the old forum, and the albums I have from them are always on rotation.
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I forgot I had Wells Fargo.
Think I will go on Discogs and check just what I have from VMP. My mate also appreciates them, he must have a dozen records from them, he has never subscribed, just got a generous friend haha.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I mean you can be, you just can’t engage with venture capitalists or get listed on the stock market.
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TBH, in this stage of capitalism it’s still almost impossible regardless. If a business wants do the right thing by their customers and employees, that is all well and good but that doesn’t mean that their market competitors are gonna respect that, no they will come in with their VC money and angel investors and bury them to steal their market shares. Even if it means feigning responsibility and caring for the short term. The whole system is fucked.

I applaud those willing to do the right thing when they can but usually they are just biding their time. Consumerism doesn’t value quality. It values earnings and units shifted.
 
also 2005 classics (its renamed classics again, JBFS is the track but the series is classics) is from daptone, probably sharon jones
 
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